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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1920
Page
4
A collection of winter table dishes including suet fruit loaf bake with cinnamon and cloves and hot sauce. corn with egg milk and breadcrumbs baked. canned pears with cream cheese and whipped cream. cinnamon apple syrup stuffed apples with celery and nuts. gelatine dessert with lemon orange and cherry juice. celery hearts filled with cream cheese offered as a relish.
A short note describes swelling wooden casks by pouring water until the joints close. It suggests stalling the cask with straw and placing a heavy stone on top while sprinkling water so the straw stays moist and the wood swells after water escapes.
A traveling salesman arrives in a small country town and awakens to a chorus of whistles. The hotel owner reveals the town’s plan to simulate industry by using flour mill whistles to give the impression of forthcoming factories.
A Chicago Tribune memory recounts a wife awakened by pounding at a locked door on a night her husband was out. She calls to him from a window then learns a telegram sender is at the door. A delivery mix up causes embarrassment but the incident remains a noted domestic moment.
Mr Daniels the minister hosts dinner with Ralph present. The boy quips that his father never prays because he arrives home at daylight, leaving no time for night prayers. The exchange appears in the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
MMogenes laments his failed search for an honest man and admits giving up on that goal. He says he now seeks a congressman who handled his income tax without anyone's help, reflecting a satirical take on integrity and self-reliance.
A joke item describes Mr. Greenby trying to buy seed and being told no suitable potatoes are available. He explains in a whisper that he has only two teeth, not opposite, and asks for mashed potato seed.
The Kansas City Star quotes Professor Pate remarking that "roses of pleasure" rarely last to adorn the brow. J Puller Gloom adds that those who rest on laurels find them a poor bed, reflecting skepticism about sustained success.
A Louisville Courier Journal remark notes the audience left in utter silence after a film about an abused wife, with the house manager observing the lack of discussion as couples are urged to keep clear of such themes.
A Detroit era style shopper asks a question while Merk replies with a witty retort about kissing in moonlight. The exchange suggests light humor or flirtation in a local paper item.
Mrs. Halden recounts a perilous dawn near White Flag and Paradise trails before the Boer War. A breakfast break near a hot springs bath becomes a tense escape as six Kafirs pursue, the narrator using a lion alarm to scatter the attackers and flee by cart, later finding bones at the water tree.
The piece notes Brazil as the youngest Latin American republic aside from Cuba, its peaceful road to independence, and Dom Pedro's abdication in favor of a republican form after recognizing public sentiment. It contrasts Brazil with Spanish American nations and laments European monarchs lacking similar foresight.
Gap Johnson speaks of slowed pace after a string of events including camp meetings, company visits, a lunar eclipse, a sick horse, a lynching view, a sleeping elder, a dog bite, a marriage, and a funeral. He notes plans to skip Squire Tutters funeral and vows to slow down.
Miss Sower reports Emily Elder, over thirty and lacking money or beauty, has married the first man who offered. Mrs. Chatter questions if she ever had other offers, but Miss Sower insists she is her dearest friend.
A father and his son discuss the son's three months at the firm. The son calls the period an endurance test while the father dismisses flattery and asserts his own endurance in the exhibit.
A Birmingham Age-Terald excerpt recalls overhearing a young man demand a choice from Dorothee as a couple argued beside a curb. The narrator confesses feeling like an unwilling eavesdropper during a moment of relationship drama.
The federal government paid a record pension total of $222,129,292.70 to 624,427 recipients in the last fiscal year, the smallest pension rolls since 1890. Ohio led with 60,902 beneficiaries. Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, and minors followed with the largest state totals and disbursements.
A collection of sayings and maxims contrasts truth and deception with lines about false charges corruption and appearances. The passage uses proverbs to caution against believing поверх outward appearances and emphasizes the danger of deceit in public discourse.
Poet Thomas Batley Aldrich warns that open gates invite diverse migrants and unknown gods, threatening Liberty’s gains. He urges strong guard to prevent chaos, preserve freedom, and avoid Rome’s doom amid a global horde and rising unfamiliar rites.
The article cites Sidney Smith, Macaulay, Chesterfield, and Bacon on politeness. Smith links politeness to nature guided by sense, Macaulay defines it as benevolence in small things, Chesterfield says it is treating others as you wish to be treated, while Bacon notes the wise are universally polite and fools only at home.
A reflective line values a life whose steady cheerful heart leaves a lasting, hopeful influence on the world and uplifts the tradition of mankind. The quotation emphasizes virtue, perseverance, and benevolence as enduring legacies beyond death.
Gorillas live in family groups with a mother carrying offspring on her hip. They build leaf covered nests high in branches as a safe home while males guard at the tree base against leopards. Males often fight over mates, a fierce struggle ending with a victor claimed mate.
A humorous dialogue collection featuring a wife lamenting no new clothes since marriage and a husband joking about music accents and uplift work. The pieces tease political vanity and family quirks with playful banter about hats gowns and niece from college.
The first degree of doctor of medicine was conferred by the college at Aesth Italy in 1920.
In the farce lywetnation a Swertish servant girl repeats a gag line in pheetrlel Porlance described as a “gag toe.” The line evokes chuckles as the eloping bride and groom appear in riding habit. The bride hesitantly answers and a gallery spectator cheers “Tell it to the swede.”
Periodic bilious attacks may reduce appetite before a meal. If meals tempt with meat, eat only a light meal and take two o Chamberlain's Tablets to avoid the attack.
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